Locating question difficulty through explorations in question space

Terry Sullivan
2001 Proceedings of the first ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries - JCDL '01  
Three different search effectiveness measures were used to classify 50 question narratives as easy or hard. Each measure was then encoded onto a spatial representation of interquestion similarity. Discriminant analysis based on the resulting map was able to predict question difficulty with approximately 80% accuracy, robust across multiple measures. Implications for the design of digital document collections are discussed.
doi:10.1145/379437.379669 dblp:conf/jcdl/Sullivan01 fatcat:pqud5ex7kjh2lp6otgis6zub7y